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GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON FOUNDATION
GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,312,948 to it, the largest being New Hanover Community Endowment Inc ($1,101,667). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of the Cape Fear Area Incshared funderslocal
- Black Latinx Asian Charter Collaborativeportfolio match
- Girls Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 87% · 2018 81% · 2019 88% · 2020 96% · 2021 95% · 2022 94% · 2023 92% · 2024 66% · 2025 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $22k → $47k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.3M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Glow Nc Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 85% · 2019 98% · 2020 74% · 2021 41% · 2022 60% · 2023 64% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
29% of GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
98% of GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON FOUNDATION's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $34k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 15 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of the Cape Fear Area Incshared funderslocalNC · backs 37 organizations that share your funders · funds 37 organizations near you
- Black Latinx Asian Charter Collaborativeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Girls Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 50can Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Project Lead the Way Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Toshiba America Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Center for Education Reformportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Whirlpool Collective Impact Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- State Charter Schools Foundation of Georgia Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wonderful Foundationsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Schools for Alabamaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $712k on record.
- Department of Education$712k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Spark Academy · disregarded
- Glow Wilmington Inc · exempt
- Beacon Education Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON FOUNDATION?
- GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,312,948 to it, the largest being New Hanover Community Endowment Inc ($1,101,667). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,312,948 in grants to GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON FOUNDATION?
- New Hanover Community Endowment Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,101,667 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 15funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing